@AC
Have you been smoking crack? You're seriously using a weakly typed scriptting language as your yard stick for what a programming language should be.
Posts by Tom Maher
4 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Apr 2008
Ten years of .NET - Did Microsoft deliver?
Please ignore the net neutrality sideshow haunting Comcast's BitTorrent bust
Thursday 7th August 2008 11:13 GMT 
@What's the problem? By AC
lol, WibbleMonkey Linux distro.... nice
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Your argument may have held some water a few years ago, however the majority of media companies, BSkyB, BBC, ITV who offer a TV over IP service do so by P2P. Why because P2P is a very efficient form of downloading large files because on the whole P2P incorperates some form of decentralisation (be it torrent or gnutella), which helps take the load of the content provider's servers.
This isn't just a fad and more and more media companies are starting to ship content over the internet, content that of course is copyrighted, however content that is licensed by the copyright holder to be transmitted over the internet. So this is a prime example of legal use of P2P. So if you start restricting P2P, you are restricting e-commerce.
I am sure this is all news to you as it seems you only use the internet to do some 'left handed' surfing of the web and send emails.
What's next throttling of IP packets sent via Xbox's and PS3, because too many people are playing games over the internet? If ISP's have sold a particular product they should be held accountable when they don't deliver.
UK ISPs agree to menace their filesharing users
Thursday 24th July 2008 13:05 GMT 
@vic - RE: ummmm....how do they know?
Usually record companies will pay people / businesses to harvet ip addresses from torrent files. Essentially they do the same thing that the people who are downloading do.
The 'ip address harvesters' search for a torrent file for a particular album / movie, connect to the torrent, download the cotent, log all ip addresses that were sharing the content, and then verify the downloaded content is the copyrighted album / movie.
Once content is verified they then flock the details of the ip addresses and content downloaded to the copy right holders and then the copyright holders take legal action to obtain the user details linked to ip address from the isp.
Doesn't matter if the torrent was encrypted or not (after all the encryption only stops the ISP's from seeing the data not the other 'torrentors') .
The only option left is to hide the ip addresses from the other torrentors - hence tor.
www.torproject.org
Biting the hand that feeds IT
